2 / Work with the culture here, not against it. If someone demands a CW, just use it.

No, not every request for a CW should be entertained. But if it has to do with politics or violence or anything triggering, use a CW.

BTW, I speak as someone who's gotten in trouble in the past regarding this—and ultimately I've concluded CWs are not a big deal.

3 / Consider who's been maintaining the Fediverse while you all have been dominating Twitter for the past 5 years: folks who were previously chased off of Twitter.

You think they're thrilled that you're in their space while you call yourselves "refugees"?

Despite this, they're being welcome because they can see the bigger picture. But that doesn't mean they're giving up their culture just because you want to feel comfortable here.

4 / No one is obligated to be your audience, and they're certainly not obligated to federate with you either.

If there's any hint you're going to be a bad citizen, or host malicious people on your instances, the plug will be pulled on you fast.

6 / Don't be threatening others if you don't get your way. In fact, the moment you threaten instance operators, you're just confirming why they shouldn't federate with you.

And when I say "threaten", I especially mean lawsuits.

7 / If you're worried about your ability to moderate your instance, keep it small. In fact, better to run multiple instances with small communities than one big instance where you can't keep tabs on what's going on.

It just takes one bad apple to spoil the bunch.

8 / Yeah, you see an opportunity. You want to bring over a ton of folk from Twitter over here. But this won't work out if you fail to build trust.

If you can't even do CWs, you're kind of suspect.

@albinanigans @escarpment

I haven't seen the posts that this is all in response to, so I don't know the full story.

But there's been a bit of this, "when you come into our space" attitude in a place where you define your own spaces. The fediverse itself isn't a monolith.

If you don't like noise in your feed, you don't follow the noise. Expecting journalists to respond to you on their posts is unreasonable. There have been bot accounts aggregating 'noise' since ActivityPub was released.

@albinanigans @escarpment

To be entirely clear, I would love for folks to be respectful to one another and take the effort to reasonably apply CWs.

It also makes sense that for folks in journalism, the baseline for when to apply a CW has been much higher than what has been expected on here and as far as I'm aware - although you can turn off content warnings if you don't feel you need them (and to make your browsing experience quicker), if turns them off for everything.